With something close to a clean sweep at this year’s Emmys, including Lead Actress and Comedy Series, the return of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to Amazon Prime next month can certainly be placed in the Eagerly Awaited category. For Season 2, the adventures of the New York housewife turned stand-up comedian Miriam 'Midge' Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) move into the heady 1960s and an expanding career, but there’ll be room for the lovingly recreated NYC locations that give the show such an evocative atmosphere. As its creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, put it in one interview, "The show will not work if it becomes a series of people talking in rooms. We have the strong downtown scenes, and that sterile Midtown look and the Upper West Side. We really caught the flavor of those places."

For those downtown scenes, we’re in the smoke-filled clubs where Midge discovers her talent for comedy. Many of the interiors were created in a Brooklyn studio, but for all-important establishing shots the production found plenty of unchanged corners of the Big Apple. One spot that takes a key role, The Gaslight Club (pictured) in Greenwich Village, haunt of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, is long gone—so they shot in nearby St. Mark’s Place (using the classic townhouse building featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin album Houses of the Holy). For some, though, they could use the real thing: we see Midge enter legendary jazz club The Village Vanguard, still at the same address at 178 Seventh Avenue South, and also timewarp Fifties music shop The Music Inn on West 4th Street.

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Later, we see her at the Kettle of Fish bar, as frequented by Jack Kerouac and the Beats, its spirit and fittings intact at a new location on Christopher Street. And Midge’s manager Susie (Alex Borstein, another Emmy winner) tracks down an old pro for advice at The Friars Club, a private comedians club on East 55th Street—we see them in the Frank Sinatra Room, named after the club’s longtime chairman.

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Another classic is the department store where Midge finds a job, the celebrated B. Altman. For this, the production took over an empty bank in Brooklyn for interiors but they also filmed at the shop’s original site at 365 Fifth Avenue, where the building is still as good as unchanged in its new role as part of the City University of New York (pictured).

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They also took advantage of the almost unchanged Albanese Meats butcher shop on Little Italy’s Elizabeth Street—renamed Lutzi’s here, though its real name was good enough for an appearance in The Godfather Part III—and the checker-floored York Barbershop on Lexington on the Upper East Side, where Susie has another meeting with her mentor.

Recreating the characters’ local hangouts also took them to the mahogany and zinc of the Old Town Bar on East 18th Street in the Flatiron District, where Midge’s estranged husband Joel can usually be found, and La Bonbonniere on Eighth Avenue, back in the Village, which stands in for The City Spoon, Midge’s favorite diner.

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Then there’s the Upper West Side, and the separate life Midge lives there. For this, they picked out a pre-war apartment block on Riverside Drive, overlooking the Hudson. It’s close to Columbia University, where Midge’s father Abe (Tony Shalhoub) teaches mathematics in a lecture hall that’s famous for appearing in dozens of movies including three Spider-Man episodes and Malcolm X. We also see her in Riverside Park, the green space overlooked by her apartment, though the memorable scene of her son’s birthday party is filmed in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where the 1912 carousel ride they use is a much-loved attraction.

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For Season 2, we also have the intriguing prospect of Midge heading out of town. Filming took place at Oquaga Lake and Harriman State Park for scenes where she plays the legendary Borscht Belt summer resorts of the Catskills in upstate New York (pictured). While she’ll no doubt give it her marvelous all, it’s a strong bet we’ll see her back in the city before long.